Fact or fiction REVEAL!

If you stopped by for Friday Funnies, they'll be back next week...

Welcome back, my lovelies! It's Friday, which means today's the day everyone rips away the curtain, bares their innermost soul and tells the truth. WOOT!

In other words, you discover if your guesses were correct...or if you were duped.

Emily and I will be counting up votes and announcing winners later tonight (Friday). Every person the storyteller fooled is a vote in their favor. Fool enough into thinking your fiction is fact, and you win a list of prizes here. Fool the most into thinking your nonfiction is fact, and here's what you win.

Runners up get a critique package from either Emily or myself.

Now...drumroll, please....

FACT: The Tale of Casey Crazy Cat
FICTION: The Buffalo Chip Blooper (which really IS all true except for the poop-in-the-face event. ;)

Thanks to everyone who played. I hope you had fun and found some new blogs to follow. Stop back by later today to find out if YOU won!

Contest and critique winners!

Tricia has read all the entries and narrowed down her choices. Remember - as she says below - requesting more pages reflects her own personal taste and not always your writing skills. Think of yourself browsing in a library to put yourself in her (or any agent's) shoes.

 AND keep reading below. I'm offering up two free MS critiques PLUS another free premium subscription to QueryTracker, chosen by Random.org...so if you didn't get a request, there may still be something free for you.

Take it away, Tricia!

I'd like to see full manuscripts from:

Cassie Mae, HOW TO DATE A NERD
Angelica R. Jackson, SPIRITS FROM THE VASTY DEEP
Melanie Stanford, DAZE AND KNIGHTS
Christopher S. Ledbetter, THE SKY THRONE

I'd like to see the first 50 pages from:

Jenny Kaczorowski, THE ALTERAE
Enchanting Editor, BALLAD KEEPER
Sara, THE GIRL IN THE MIRROR
Krista V. THE REGENERATED MAN AND ME
andimjulie, THE SYMPTOMS OF OUR SHADOWS
Hope Roberson, MY PROTECTOR: THE CALLING
Tristina Wright, THE GIRL WITH THE PORCELAIN WINGS

Please send the requested material as a Word attachment (.doc only) to tricia@emliterary.com with the subject "Requested Material."

And a little note from me for everyone:

I so enjoyed every single query and first 250 words that I read. There is so much talent included here. I found it difficult to choose (which is why I chose more than one of each), so please don't take not being picked personally. Me not picking your query only means that I didn't connect with it as much as I'd like. I wish you all much luck and can't wait to see great things from all of you in the future!

Thanks for taking part in the contest. What a treat!

Congratulations to the winners and the runner-ups, and to everyone for taking part!

Full MS critiques from Melodie offered to:

CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE CYBORG - by MarcyKate

THE CURIOUS WORLD OF WATSON & CRICK - by Jen Hilt

Ladies, if you'd like to take me up on this offer, email me at rewrighter (at) gmail (dot) com. It can be the MS mentioned or another WIP.

Finally, the QueryTracker premium membership goes to:

Ladonna Watkins!

Congratulations all and thanks so much for participating.